Clippings

November 8, 2012

By Gabrielle.

Confession: I can’t remember the last time I had an actual newspaper in my hand. I don’t read French well enough to subscribe here. And in the States, I get all my news online. I still haven’t given up on paper magazines, but real-life newspapers have become a non-part of my life.

I have the best memories of waiting impatiently for my turn with the comics on Sunday mornings before church. It’s so strange that my kids won’t have that experience at all!

Donna Ruff makes the headlines stunning. I bet she could turn even the worst news into a work of art. : )

How about you? Any die-hard, ink on your fingers all day newspaper readers out there?

We used to get our comic books every Saturday morning. My mom still reads 4 papers a day and keeps sending me interesting clippings all the way from Switzerland. It’s a nice way to get news from home that wouldn’t normally make it into the online version.

My husband and I are both journalists, so we get the newspaper, but I cringe that it often goes unread for days! I’ll play catch-up every few weeks and plow through stacks of great newspaper articles. (My boys do love, love the Sunday comics however.)

We get two Sunday papers. We started doing it when our church time was 1:30! The paper made Sunday mornings more tolerable and now we all love it so much that we still do it even though our ward meets earlier now. My son loves the comics and the kid’s crossword puzzle. My girls love clipping coupons and looking at the ads. I like the book reviews. I love the Sunday ritual of a newspaper.

Paper newspaper ! I grew up with a daily and a twice-a-week paper. I love the paper. Even if plain. And I love the kind of print on it. When I’m abroad I have to buy a newspaper. Even in places I can manage only part of the text. At home I try not to have my computer next to me for meals. But newspapers are just perfect at the kitchen table.

We read the news on line everyday, but on Sundays we receive the NY Times and spend our mornings with a cup of coffee and the paper spread all over the bed. I cherish those moments! I work 6 days a week, so, spending the morning in bed with the paper is the best pampering after a long week. I trade comments and articles with my husband of 39 years and when we finally get up to make brunch, the paper feels like a good friend that came to visit and brought all the good gossip to us!

I absolutely love newspapers. One of our greatest joys last year on sabbatical was to get up around 5- 5:30 am and read the Danish newspaper in bed with our cup of coffee. Politiken is like the New York Times of Denmark. Long, in-depth articles about the world, culture, books, theater, etc. What a delicious pleasure. I miss it as we read the truncated version of news we see in the Seattle Times these days. The routine of coffee and the news is still a pleasure though.

I get the paper on the weekends. It is a real joy for me to sit in quiet and hold my paper catching up on the news. I check it out during the week online, but I just can’t give up the real deal all together. I love the actual feel of it!

We get the Sunday paper.
My little ones love waking up early to run out and retrieve the paper from the driveway. They run back in and proceed to dump the Sunday paper into a big pile on the floor. They dig around for the Best Buy ad for Dad, the sports section for the teens and the comics for a sibling to read to them.
It’s a wonderful Sunday tradition!

We didn’t get a newspaper growing up, but my grandparents did. I remember rifling through all the pages to find the comics on Sunday afternoon when we went to their house for lunch. Now that I’m an adult I get most of my news online, but we get a newspaper at the office. Whenever I can, I take the time to read it. There’s something about those skinny columns of words that always brings me back to the dream I had to be a journalist when I was writing for my school newspaper as a kid. :)

Love this art! My sons really dig the newspaper comics and I have to say that I really enjoy reading the newspaper when I get one which is usually at a coffee shop infrequently. I love those times when they are pouring over the comics and I’m reading something local or global.

I have always enjoyed a daily PAPER! I also love the crafts made from old stacks: paper palm trees, hats, etc.! I used to have contests in class where my students made either outfits, tools, or even animals out of the paper. After doing current events, of course! Love paper (and pencil I must say)!

We also get our news online and do not subscribe to the paper. Lucky for my kids, my Grandmother lives in our guest house and saves the comics from her paper for them, so they get to read them every Sunday.
She faithfully reads the paper every day and it is one of my clearest memories of her from when I was a child. She would sit each day at her table with her cup of warm tea and the paper…

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My name is Gabrielle Blair. I'm a designer and mother of six. After 2 1/2 years in France, we just bought a home in Oakland, California. We call it The Treehouse. I post on where design and motherhood intersect.

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